Anti-Saloon League

The Anti-Saloon League was a lobbyist organization that supported the implementation of liquor Prohibition in the United States from 1893 to 1948. The league had the support of pious Protestants in the American South and the rural north, and it was influential in the US Democratic Party's decision to pass the Prohibition amendment. The ASL was defeated when Prohibition was repealed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the "wet" Democrats in 1933, and the ASL dissolved in 1948.